Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the moment, if there is no lilo.conf, the kernel-image > postinst creates a functioanl lilo.conf that takes into account
Is this wise? I assume that in a perfect world the lilo package would be better to configure itself than some "random" other package. The lilo package would have more knowledge of which special things to consider, eventually after consulting the user. Consider this: Kernel-image gets installed and finds no lilo.conf and makes a minimal but functional lilo.conf. Then lilo gets installed, it finds a lilo.conf and decides not to touch it (what a nice package). What the user now doesn't know is that the lilo packages configuration of lilo.conf would have given him the oputunity to use a password on lilo or some other fancy feature. Nobody should touch the configuration files belonging to lilo but the local sysadmin and the lilo package itself. And the lilo package should rather be a little less fancy in it's install than destroying existing configurations.